Better doesn't mean good. So just because "Resident Evil: Extinction," the third and purportedly last installment in the videogame film franchise, marks a major improvement upon the last outing, don't go rushing to theaters just yet.

Just in case you missed this month's "Rogue Assassin" and "Death Sentence," both slick but ultimately shallow revenge fantasies that ran up the body count to prove the point that violence begets more violence, along comes "The Brave One" to reiterate the lesson with all the subtlety of a bullet to the head.

The story behind the making of "The Invasion" provides more thrills and contains more twists and turns than the finished product. According to press reports, this reworking of the seminal science-fiction novel "The Body Snatchers" suffered through rewrites and casting woes before it even started lensing and then, after the picture wrapped, its original director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, got the boot and was replaced by a hired gun, who proceeded to reshoot many of the scenes.

A suburbanite's innermost fears -- that the next door neighbor has something to hide and that someone, somewhere is watching -- are realized in "Disturbia," a deft, topical thriller that does a better than average job at delivering the goods.

Take a deep breath before you watch "The Bourne Ultimatum" because, for nearly two hours, you'll be holding it. From its opening shot to its final reel, the concluding chapter in this genre-redefining spy trilogy dives into the summer's best action and thrills, only occasionally coming up for air to raise some hard-hitting questions and address some urgent, topical issues.

Up until the one-hour mark, the paranormal thriller "1408" delivers scares, low-key laughs and just the right amount of thought-provoking material. Then the picture gets all philosophical on us and collapses under the weight of its own ambition.

The true story of a massive in-house investigation and sting operation that led to the pre-9/11 2001 capture of a spy within the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation turns into the informative and concisely told but only occasionally suspenseful thriller "Breach."

South Korean pop idol Rain, billed here as Jeong Ji-hun, could have taken the easy way out and chosen a light, breezy romantic comedy to make his big-screen debut in -- but he goes one better and costars in "I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK," a light, breezy affair that, in an instant, turns dark and violently disturbing.